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American Gun

The True Story of the AR-15

By: Cameron McWhirter,Zusha Elinson

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American Gun

The True Story of the AR-15

By: Cameron McWhirter,Zusha Elinson

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize “A magisterial work of narrative history and original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one cold, catastrophic fact at a time . . . A virtually unprecedented achievement.” —Mike Spies, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) A Washington Post top 50 nonfiction book of 2023 | Short-listed for the Zócalo Book Prize One of The New York Times’ 33 nonfiction books to read this fall | One of Esquire’s best books of fall | A Kirkus Reviews best nonfiction book of 2023 Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Bloomberg American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America’s most controversial weapon. In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century. In American Gun, the veteran Wall Street Journal reporters Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson track the AR-15 from inception to ubiquity. How did the same gun represent the essence of freedom to millions of Americans and the essence of evil to millions more? To answer this question, McWhirter and Elinson follow Stoner—the American Kalashnikov—as he struggled mightily to win support for his invention, which under the name M16 would become standard equipment in Vietnam. Shunned by gun owners at first, the rifle’s popularity would take off thanks to a renegade band of small-time gun makers. And in the 2000s, it would become the weapon of choice for mass shooters, prompting widespread calls for proscription even as the gun industry embraced it as a financial savior. Writing with fairness and compassion, McWhirter and Elinson explore America’s gun culture, revealing the deep appeal of the AR-15, the awful havoc it wreaks, and the politics of reducing its toll. The result is a moral history of contemporary America’s love affair with technology, freedom, and weaponry. Includes 8 pages of black-and-white images.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374722005

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Red Summer

The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

By: Cameron McWhirter

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Red Summer

The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

By: Cameron McWhirter

A narrative history of America's deadliest episode of race riots and lynchings After World War I, black Americans fervently hoped for a new epoch of peace, prosperity, and equality. Black soldiers believed their participation in the fight to make the world safe for democracy finally earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, an unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. From April to November of 1919, the racial unrest rolled across the South into the North and the Midwest, even to the nation's capital. Millions of lives were disrupted, and hundreds of lives were lost. Blacks responded by fighting back with an intensity and determination never seen before. Red Summer is the first narrative history written about this epic encounter. Focusing on the worst riots and lynchings—including those in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Charleston, Omaha and Knoxville—Cameron McWhirter chronicles the mayhem, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society forty years later.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1429972939

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9781429972932

American Gun

The True Story of the AR-15

By: Cameron McWhirter,Zusha Elinson

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The True Story of the AR-15

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Red Summer

The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

By: Cameron McWhirter

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The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America

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Necessary but Not Sufficient

Improving Community Living for Youth after Residential Mental Health Programs

By: Gary Cameron,Karen M. Frensch,Trudy Smit Quosai,Mark Pancer,Michele Preyde

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Necessary but Not Sufficient

Improving Community Living for Youth after Residential Mental Health Programs

By: Gary Cameron,Karen M. Frensch,Trudy Smit Quosai,Mark Pancer,Michele Preyde

Residential mental health placements remain an essential but controversial and costly part of the children's mental health service system.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487507283

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Gallipoli

The Final Battles and Evacuation of ANZAC

By: David W. Cameron

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Gallipoli

The Final Battles and Evacuation of ANZAC

By: David W. Cameron

In early August with the failure of the August Offensive at Gallipoli the senior commanders still believed that victory was possible. To help prepare for a new offensive sometime in the first half on 1916 the allied forces attempted to straighten out the line connecting Suvla and Anzac at a small hillock called Hill 60.

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Simon and Schuster

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1921941715

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9781921941719

Kings of the Road

How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom

By: Cameron Stracher

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Kings of the Road

How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom

By: Cameron Stracher

For fans of The Perfect Mile and Born to Run, a riveting, three-pronged narrative about the golden era of running in America--the 1970s--as seen through the fascinating lives and careers of running greats, Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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054777396X

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Our Friend the Enemy

A detailed account of ANZAC from both sides of the wire

By: David W. Cameron

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Our Friend the Enemy

A detailed account of ANZAC from both sides of the wire

By: David W. Cameron

Our Friend the Enemy is the first detailed history of the Gallipoli campaign at Anzac since Charles Bean’s Official History. Viewed from both sides of the wire and described in first-hand accounts. Australian Captain Herbert Layh recounted that as they approached the beach on 25 April that, once we were behind cover the Turks turned their .. [fire] on us, and gave us a lively 10 minutes. A poor chap next to me was hit three times. He begged me to shoot him, but luckily for him a fourth bullet got him and put him out of his pain. Later that day, Sergeant Charles Saunders, a New Zealand engineer, described his first taste of battle, The Turks were entrenched some 50-100 yards from the edge of the face of the gully and their machine guns swept the edges. Line after line of our men went up, some lines didn’t take two paces over the crest when down they went to a man and on came another line. Gunner Recep Trudal of the Turkish 27th Regiment wrote of the fierce Turkish counter-attack on 19 May designed to push the Anzac’s back into the sea, It started at morning prayer call time, and then it went on and on, never stopped. You know there was no break for eating or anything … Attack was our command. That was what the Pasha said. Once he says “Attack”, you attack, and you either die or you survive.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922132756

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9781922132758

Shadows of ANZAC

An Intimate History of Gallipoli

By: David W. Cameron

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Shadows of ANZAC

An Intimate History of Gallipoli

By: David W. Cameron

On 25 April 1915, with the landing of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) below the slopes of Sari Bair on the Gallipoli peninsula, the ANZAC legend was born. Nine months later, having suffered thousands of casualties from disease, hand-to-hand fighting, bombing, sniping and forlorn charges across no man’s land, the politicians and senior military commanders in London called it quits. While the Turks also suffered terribly, they at least emerged victorious. The fighting at Anzac was not restricted to the ANZACs and Turks alone. British troops also fought at Anzac from the earliest days of the invasion and large numbers of British and Indian troops were committed to the Anzac sector during the failed August offensive designed to break the stalemate. The invasion was also supported by large numbers of men — often non-combatants — who performed vital roles. Naval beach officers kept logistics operating in some form of ‘orderly’ fashion; Indian mule handlers moved supplies of food, water and ammunition to the front lines; and medical staff and army chaplains worked on the beach, caring for the wounded and the dead. All these men were frequently under fire from the Turkish battery known as ‘Beachy Bill’. Others surveyed the narrow beachhead and bored deep holes for drinking water; signallers tried desperately to establish and maintain communications; and the gunners hunted the battlefield for suitable places to site their guns. Off the peninsula, but just as vital, were the nursing and medical staff on the hospital ships, at Lemnos, Alexandria, Cairo and Malta, and the airmen who flew above the battlefield spotting for the navy and artillery. Shadows of Anzac: An intimate history of Gallipoli tells the story of the ‘ordinary’ men and women who participated in the Gallipoli campaign from April to December 1915 and gave the Anzac legend meaning. Drawing on letters, diaries and other primary and secondary sources, David Cameron provides an intimate and personal perspective of Anzac, a richly varied portrayal that describes the absurdity, monotony and often humour that sat alongside the horrors of the bitter fight to claim the peninsula.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922132195

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9781922132192

It Was An Accident

(Book 2 in the 'Nicky Burket' series)

By: Jeremy Cameron

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It Was An Accident

(Book 2 in the 'Nicky Burket' series)

By: Jeremy Cameron

Nicky Burkett, still incarcerated at the end of Vinnie Got Blown Away, is released on to the streets of Walthamstow in It Was An Accident. He wants to go straight. His girlfriend Noreen wants him to go straight and she won't go near him if he doesn't. He tries. But events and people conspire against him. He is offered "work". He is attacked. His mates are attacked. He runs to Jamaica and is attacked again. Now the fight back begins... Filmed starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Max Beesley and James Bolam, It Was An Accident is the fast, furious, bloody and hilarious follow up to the acclaimed Vinnie Got Blown Away. 'A wonderful thriller... An absolute cracker.' The Independent. 'The pleasure is intense.' Time Out. 'Ingenious, his street talk sizzles with wit and invention.' Literary Review. 'Brilliant, unputdownable' The Big Issue. 'A consistently funny and entertaining book.' The Times.

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HopeRoad

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1908446404

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9781908446404

Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880

Scotland since 1880

By: Ewen Cameron

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Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880

Scotland since 1880

By: Ewen Cameron

Ewen Cameron explores the political debate between unionism, liberalism, socialism and nationalism, and the changing political relationship between Scotland and the United Kingdom. He sets Scottish experience alongside the Irish, Welsh and European, and considers British dimensions of historical change--involvement in two world wars, imperial growth and decline, for example - from a Scottish perspective. He relates political events to trends and movements in the economy, culture and society of the nation's regions--borders, lowlands, highlands, and islands. Underlying the history, and sometimes impelling its ambitions, are the evolution and growth of national self-confidence and identity which fundamentally affected Scotland's destiny in the last century. Dr Cameron ends by considering how such forces may transform it in this one. Like the period it describes this book has politics at its heart. The recent upsurge of scholarship and publication, backed by the author's extensive primary research, underpin its vivid and well-paced narrative.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748628258

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9780748628254

Film Review, 1999-2000

Includes Video Releases and Websites

By: James Cameron-Wilson

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Film Review, 1999-2000

Includes Video Releases and Websites

By: James Cameron-Wilson

Now in its 57th year, Film Review is the longest-running film annual available. Lively opinion is combined with detailed coverage of the year's cinema releases, as well as features on movie gossip, and the most promising new faces.

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200

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1903111005

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9781903111000

Julia Margaret Cameron. Ediz. illustrata

By: Joanne Lukitsh,Julia Margaret Cameron

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Julia Margaret Cameron. Ediz. illustrata

By: Joanne Lukitsh,Julia Margaret Cameron

An examination of the life and work of this eminent photographer.

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Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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0714840173

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9780714840178

Julia Margaret Cameron

19th Century Photographer of Genius

By: Colin Ford,Julia Margaret Cameron

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Julia Margaret Cameron

19th Century Photographer of Genius

By: Colin Ford,Julia Margaret Cameron

For over a century, the photographs of Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79) have fascinated historians, photographers and collectors. Cameron produced hundreds of searching portraits of the most eminent figures of the Victorian age as well as romantic pictures of beautiful young women, and strikingly original - if often controversial - literary illustrations. Today her prints fetch staggering prices at auction.

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1855143321

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9781855143326

Book's by Cameron McWhirter

American Gun

American Gun

Red Summer

Red Summer

American Gun

American Gun

Red Summer

Red Summer

Necessary but Not Sufficient

Necessary but Not Sufficient

Gallipoli

Gallipoli

Kings of the Road

Kings of the Road

Our Friend the Enemy

Our Friend the Enemy

Shadows of ANZAC

Shadows of ANZAC

It Was An Accident

It Was An Accident

Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880

Impaled Upon a Thistle: Scotland since 1880

Film Review, 1999-2000

Film Review, 1999-2000

Julia Margaret Cameron. Ediz. illustrata

Julia Margaret Cameron. Ediz. illustrata

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron

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